Private Practice
Ronka spent six years in private practice before his election to the City Council and had ""several years of developing industrial parks."
A Democrat, he was a member of an advisory council formed by Los Angeles District Attorney John Van de Kamp to study reform of the juvenile justice system and was also active with the San Fernando Valley Bar Association
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